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Monday, November 26, 2012

The Environmental Protection Agency has published a teaching guide
designed to teach adult non-English speakers the language with a
curriculum on environmentalism, including a homework assignment telling
students to “observe” their neighbors, school and workplace to see if
recycling is taking place. In the “Teach English, Teach About the Environment,” under the
heading “Civic Integration Activity” in the beginner’s level Lesson Plan
One on recycling, the following questions are asked: Ask students to observe whether their neighbors recycle their waste. Ask students to observe whether the school or their workplace recycles waste material. Ask at the following class what they observed. In the same lesson, the homework – or “home support activity” – is to
calculate how much each student adds to the “waste stream.” The introduction to the classes for beginner, intermediate and advanced non-English speaking student stated: “As a teacher of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), you
know that your classes are extremely popular with immigrants and
long-term visitors to the United States. “These classes provide not only the opportunity to learn English but
can serve as a portal through which many newcomers pass as a first step
in integrating themselves into their new communities and American
society,” the introduction stated. A “Note to Instructors” advised them to teach vocabulary using “environmentally-related words.”...more

Is this education or indoctrination? Besides, why is the EPA involved in education anyway?